Honestly,’ she said when they were out of Bruce’s earshot, ‘he’s as bad in the kitchen as you are. What do you people do on the servant’s night off, anyway?’ Lila looked Jessica straight in the eye. '...

He hadn't wanted to leave Emma, but at the same time he'd thought it would help. Like an addict getting away from the source of his addiction.

Harden your heart.

Getting into a fight with a popular senior. Pissing off a school teacher and the local chief of police. Hanging with two major-league losers. She slapped my back. Welcome to high school.

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

Even from high above, I could feel Amanda's hate. Or perhaps it was another dimension of my Shadow, my own hate for her closing in on me. Despite all I had learned and seen, I wished to God someone wo...

Es mejor soñar una vida que vivirla, aunque vivirla siga siendo soñarla, pero menos misteriosamente y con menos claridad a la vez, con un sueño oscuro y pesado, similar al sueño disperso en la débil c...

Did you teach him wisdom as well as valor, Ned! She wondered. Did you teach him how toKneel! The grave yards of the Seven Kinfdoms are full of brave men who had never learned that lesson. Cat.

Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm and the back are not the same...They can be neither separated, nor mixed.

Cheer the bull, or cheer the bear; cheer both, and you will be trampled and eaten.

By the time she awoke she couldn’t even remember if she had a dream or a nightmare. There had only been a deathlike peace.

But I'm a bad priest, you see. I know--from experience--how much beauty Satan carried down with him when he fell. Nobody ever said the fallen angels were the ugly ones. Oh, no, they were just as quick...

Bob loses saving throw vs. shiny with a penalty of -5. Bob takes 2d8 damage to the credit card.

Annabeth realized that if six of them went on these two quests, it would leave Percy alone on the ship with Coach Hedge, which was maybe not a situation a caring girlfriend should put him in. Nor was...

All at once, something wonderful happened, although at first, it seemed perfectly ordinary. A female goldfinch suddenly hove into view. She lighted weightlessly on the head of a bankside purple thistl...

After our negotiations were completed, the dome would be imploded and launched toward the nearest black hole, so that none of its atoms would ever contaminate this particular universe again. I thought...

A hero can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as he has the nerve.

There was no point in sighing after what I could not have. It only distracted me from what I did have.

Bajo una luz ya mortecinase agita y baila sin razónla Vida aullante y libertina,en tanto, lejos del turbión,se alza la noche en el confíny calma aun el hambre en torno;todo lo borra: hasta el bochorno...

And all your future lies beneath your hat.